Eveleigh Nash, 1910. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated frontispiece, almost detached. Pages are mildly tanned, heavier to edges with slight foxing, but text remains clear. Binding is slightly shaky, due to cracked hinges, but all pages remain attached. Boards have heavy shelf-wear, with visible corner bumping and noticeable scuffing to edges. Spine is moderately sunned, with visible crushing and splitting, and slight fraying, to ends. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall, with a few other noticeable marks. Gilt remains bright.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1669707279MHP
Title: Queen Sheba's Ring
Author: H Rider Haggard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Eveleigh Nash
Date Published: 1910

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....